 | John Dryden - 1702 - 362 pages
...fpacious Room, The Terfian Carpet, or the Tyrian Loom, Clear up the cloudy foreheads of the Great. VIII Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to day his own : He, who, fecure within, can fay, To morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd to day.... | |
 | Edward Bysshe - 1710 - 620 pages
...Let us ufe all ; for if we lofe one Day, The white one in the Crowd may flip away. Dryd. Tjr. Love. Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He who can call To-Day his own! He, who ie'cure within, can fay, To-Mprrow do thy worft, for I have liy'd To-Day; Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
 | Charles Gildon - 1718 - 490 pages
...:J Let us ufe all ; for if we loft one Day, The white-one in the Crowd may flip away. (Dry<t. Tyr. Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He who can call To-Day his own ! He, who ftcure within can fay, To-Morrow do thy worft ; for I have liv'd To- Day. Be fair, or foul, or rain,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1743 - 352 pages
...Winds, their fcatter'd HoVIII. [nours mourn, Happy the Man, and happy he alone, He, whd can call to- Day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, To-Morrow do thy worft, for I have Hv'd to-Day. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or fhine, The Joys I have poffefs'd, in fpite of Fate are mine.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 488 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd VIII. [honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or mine, [day Thejoysl have pofTefs'd,in fpiteof fate are mine, Not Heav'n... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 528 pages
...from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd VIII. [honors mourn. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call...can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd toBe fair, or foul, or rain, or fhine, [day Thejoys I have poflefs'd, in ipite of fate are mine, Not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 386 pages
...rocks are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd honours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He,...call to-day his own : He who, fecure within, can fay, Tp-morrow do thy worft, for I have liv'd to-day Be fair, or foul, or rain, or mine, The joys I haye... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 388 pages
...foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd honours monrn. VIII. Happy th« man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, fccnre within, can fay, To-morrow do thy worft, for I have Hv'd to-day Be fair, or foul, or rain, or... | |
 | John Duncombe, John Hughes - 1773 - 998 pages
...every other fatisfaction of life ; which no one more ardently wifhes, than My lord, &c. JOHN HUGHES, * Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call to.day his own ; He who, fecure within, can fay, To morrow do thy worft, for J jfave liv'd to-day ! Dryden. r LETTER LXVJL Earl COWPER to Mr. HUGHES.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 pages
...rocks are from their old foundations torn, And woods, made thin with winds, their fcatter'd honours mourn. VIII. Happy the man, and happy he alone, He,...have liv'd to-day ; Be fair, or foul, or rain, or fmne, The joys I have poflefs'd, in fpite of fate are mine, Not Heaven itfelf upon the paft has power... | |
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Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. 
